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Misirlou, the surf riff that opens Pulp Fiction, gets a Mr. Tabs lesson

Patrick Dwyer breaks Dick Dale's 1962 instrumental into seven sections, and a quieter Metallica upload went up two days earlier.

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

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Patrick Dwyer finally got to Misirlou. His Dick Dale lesson went up on Wednesday and drew close to 60,000 views in its first day. That is the kind of start that makes it the channel's busiest video by a wide margin, ahead of Santana's Europa and Led Zeppelin's The Ocean from the weeks before.

The song needs little introduction. Dale's 1962 recording turned an old Eastern Mediterranean tune into the blueprint for surf guitar: rapid-fire tremolo picking on the low strings, drenched in reverb. Quentin Tarantino made it famous all over again by putting it over the opening credits of Pulp Fiction in 1994. A small dance-scene still in the thumbnail is what tipped off several viewers before they read the title. Dwyer splits the tune into seven sections, from A to G.

The comments read like a guitar club. One viewer jokes that it is black metal without the distortion. Another plans to use it as alternate-picking practice before tackling Megadeth. Older players remember seeing Dale play it live at a state fair in the 1980s.

The week's other upload, Metallica's For Whom the Bell Tolls, went up with a bare one-word description and has started slowly. Overall the channel ran a little above its usual daily pace. Among the music-lesson channels nearest its size it drew the most views of the week, while the drummer Colby Fulton and EMIL VERGO were both well ahead of their own norms.

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What viewers say

  • Black metal without distorsion
  • This is how I get good at alternate picking, holy wars and technical difficulties can wait
  • When I was a kid in the 80s, I saw Dick Dale at the California State Fair. I remember him playing this. You did an awesome job on this song!
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The videos drawing views on Mr. Tabs right now

The facts
Channel
Mr. Tabs
Subscribers
1,150,000
Channel views, last 7 days
2,442,352
Videos published this week
2
Video published
October 1, 2026
Video views so far
111,807
Views on its first day
59,174

The numbers

Here is how Mr. Tabs' week looks in figures.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
Mr. Tabs
2,442,352
Adam Neely
151,282
subscribers
1,150,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
339,695,519
views per day
378,200
typical day: 361,475
first-day views of each video posted this week
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Adam Neely
1,830,000
Mr. Tabs
1,150,000
EMIL VERGO
956,000
As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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